This is what our editors and contributors were drinking last week.... Lenn Thompson: Wolffer Estate 2005 Reserve Chardonnay (Hamptons) If you have any of this knocking around in your cellar, chill it only lightly and open it tonight. It's nearly...

Visitors to Long Island's North Fork have been driving right by the McCall family's Corchaug Estate for years -- without even knowing it. Located directly across the road from Pellegrini Vineyards in Cutchogue, the 21-acre vineyard is planted with 11...

Photo Courtesy of Hudson Valley Wine Country Oak Summit Vineyard, producer of what I consider the best pinot noir in the Hudson Rivery Valley AVA, also grows chardonnay and cabernet franc in their little vineyard. Over the weekend, they harvested...

By Lenn Thompson, Editor-in-Chief This weekend HARVEST EAST END, a wine auction and celebration of Long Island's East End, will take over wine country on both forks to benefit the Peconic Land Trust and East End Hospice. The event has...

By Julia Burke Fall is in the air in a big way here in western New York, and as far as I’m concerned, fall is beer season. Oktoberfests, pumpkin ales, harvest ales, bocks…the styles brewed during this time of year...

Jake Perdie reports that Jamesport Vineyards harvested 4 tons of pinot noir from owner Ron Goerler's "Early Rising Farm" on Cox Lane yesterday morning. Those vines are 22 years old and the fruit came in at 24.5 brix with TA...

By Tom Mansell We now come to some of the most famous and well-known preparations in biodynamics, the field sprays. Cow manure or silica fermented in the ground in cow horns is practically the very symbol of biodynamics. These preparations...

By Evan Dawson Winemakers love to tell you that wine is made in the vineyard. Sometimes it's schlock. Sometimes it's humility. Often it's true. But in vintages like 2009, when the vineyard has been challenged, wine is also made in...

By Lenn Thompson You just can't discuss Long Island sauvignon blanc without a mention of Macari Vineyards in Mattituck. For years they've put out consistently good renditions. In recent years, they've added a second sauvignon with subtle oak influence, but...

There are far worse things that blind tasting on the porch at Shinn Estate Vineyards By Lenn Thompson It's great when a plan finally comes together. David Page, co-owner of Shinn Estate Vineyards (that's him with the pony tail on...

By Lenn Thompson One last reminder that TasteNY featuring the wines of Shinn Estate Vineyards is tomorrow night at 8 p.m. I know that quite a few of you have purchased our TasteNY 3-Pack, which includes: Shinn Estate Vineyards 2009...